Juli mugged at Destiny

[MSOrange]

Jim Boeheim's Wife Robbed At Gunpoint

Juli Boeheim -- Jim Boeheim's wife -- was robbed at gunpoint.

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[bpo57]

I thought you bought all your clothes at Spencer Gifts? j/k

Won't bore you with the details but I am very familiar with Spencer Gifts and their financial performance. Despite being essentially mall only I can tell you that they absolutely kick @ss. Not sure what that says about society but...

 

[Roger N]

Online shopping is a vice of mine lol.

The Goodwill store is online?

 

[Briancuse]

The Goodwill store is online?

Ouch

 

[obliterata]

Terrible, I'm glad she's physically alright and that it wasn't worse than terrible.

As far as Destiny is concerned......

In the winter it's a good place to mall walk, that's what I do as do others. If I see a person/people who I think might cause a problem I don't go near them. I'm quite cautious using a restroom too and I park in the underground garage, I think it's a safer place than parking outside.

All in all I feel relatively safe but I do think this winter is worse than last.

 

[Roger N]

Ouch

Sorry, had to do it

 

[NineOneSeven]

That’s the end of that mall. It’s been on life support, this will end it.

Destiny on life support? Wow… thought there was always a lot of traffic there. Is it not still one of the largest malls in country?

 

[IthacaMatt]

Destiny on life support? Wow… thought there was always a lot of traffic there. Is it not still one of the largest malls in country?

They've got some big financing problems coming up, and the whole business model of malls has changed now that department stores are all basically bankrupt / a dead concept walking.

 

[NineOneSeven]

They've got some big financing problems coming up, and the whole business model of malls has changed now that department stores are all basically bankrupt / a dead concept walking.

I mean malls in general have been on the down for awhile now. That’s why destiny always stood out to me, considering the popularity.

 

[llandz]

I believe it was her purse that was stolen. Not sure about the phone unless it was in the purse. CTO, give her all of our best wishes. Scary thing for sure.

 

[rocklloyd]

Now that i’ve discovered the Apple store will use a courier to get purchases to your home in a few hours, I have absolutely zero need to step in mall to “shop”

 

[JarHeadJim]

No malls for me. I just click the Amazon link at the top of the page to do my shopping.

On a side note my son works at LIDS. They did about $25K in sales on Black Friday. They have done about $15K since. They are set to close at the end of March.

 

[690West]

I believe it was her purse that was stolen. Not sure about the phone unless it was in the purse. CTO, give her all of our best wishes. Scary thing for sure.

He grabbed her phone and her purse. Her phone was recovered right away tho. Her purse was more like a little black backpack purse. (Channel 9 last night)

 

[Cusefan69]

Sorry to hear and hope she is ok. Not the first time bad things have happened there and not at all surprised way more happens there than reported. People always need to be aware of their surroundings, unfortunately even at a mall. 12 year olds with guns. Aka An accident just waiting to happen. Sweet. SMH.

 

[STEVEHOLT]

They don’t even have a Lord and Taylor to pick up a nice robe from, anymore.

Or recruit giant security guards for your intramural team

 

[orangencpolice]

I hate to say it but some of these criminals don’t care who you are, only one what you have that they can take. To do it at 2 pm is pretty bold. Obviously glad that she is okay.

 

[Orangezoo]

Glad she is OK. It's sad to see another longstanding part of our world, and especially the younger crowd's is circling the drain. Kids have already been put in a corner from CoVid on top of society pushing them to do everything virtually.

Athletics funding is down, participation in athletics is down and now the other healthy outlets are shrinking. It'd sad and scary

 

[orangencpolice]

In the north Charlotte area (Concord) we have a huge outlet mall called Concord Mills. The last two years they have had multiple shootings, including a police officer that was shot and killed about a mile away from the mall. Also there was a teenage girl shot and killed over an argument between two young men. The girl had nothing to do with the disagreement. The mall administration finally implemented that if you are under eighteen years of age, that you cannot come to the mall without an adult. It is strongly enforced from what I have heard. It has helped out quite a bit. I wonder if Destiny has anything like this in place or has considered it.

 

[bpo57]

No malls for me. I just click the Amazon link at the top of the page to do my shopping.

On a side note my son works at LIDS. They did about $25K in sales on Black Friday. They have done about $15K since. They are set to close at the end of March.

Another retailer (Lids) that has been tearing it up.

 

[HakAttack]

That’s the end of that mall. It’s been on life support, this will end it.

Some folks know that I’ve been absent from the board these past few months. I was assaulted at the mall the first week in January and sustained a concussion and a lot of facial injuries. I haven’t been back there since.

It’s horrible to hear about Juli and I’m not at all surprised it happened to her. The mall is a horrible spot at this point in time.

 

[Eric15]

Some folks know that I’ve been absent from the board these past few months. I was assaulted at the mall the first week in January and sustained a concussion and a lot of facial injuries. I haven’t been back there since.

It’s horrible to hear about Juli and I’m not at all surprised it happened to her. The mall is a horrible spot at this point in time.

Good lord so sorry to hear that. Do you feel comfortable sharing any more details? Obviously no pressure if you don’t want to.

 

[Cheriehoop]

Some folks know that I’ve been absent from the board these past few months. I was assaulted at the mall the first week in January and sustained a concussion and a lot of facial injuries. I haven’t been back there since.

It’s horrible to hear about Juli and I’m not at all surprised it happened to her. The mall is a horrible spot at this point in time.

So sorry to read this happened to you.

 

[Newhouser]

Two things are certain - Destiny has always spun their numbers. I don't think it's ever been as successful as they would like us all to believe.

Two, Onondaga County and the City are going to have to be very creative in the next 20 years trying to figure out what to do with that massive, empty, eye sore.

 

[HakAttack]

Good lord so sorry to hear that. Do you feel comfortable sharing any more details? Obviously no pressure if you don’t want to.

Sure. I don’t want to derail this thread into what happened to me, but happy to divulge a bit more.

Was walking into the mall to pick up my computer from the Apple store that was being repaired. Monday morning. First week after New Years. I went in the old Best Buy entrance. A guy (probably early 20s) was on his way out. At the time we were still masking in NY state. I must have shot him a look because he wasn’t wearing a mask. He didn’t like it, stopped, and turned around. Words were exchanged. I turned around and walked away.

He turned back around, came back into the mall and rushed me. It was at that point that I realized he was going to attack me. I was carrying my hiking/daypack backpack and realized I had a knife in there. I pulled it out and shouted “hey, leave me alone. I don’t want any trouble”. (I wasn’t planning on using it…more so to scare the guy).

That just made him even more angry once he saw I had a knife. He tried to wrestle it from me and was screaming to give him the knife and that he had a gun. Once I managed to put the knife back in my pocket that’s when he started hitting me. Just head and body blows in all directions. I went down pretty quick and was trying to just deflect.

This was next to the old Best Buy entrance and the nail salon. There were staff and customers in the nail salon and no one shouted at the guy or tried to intervene. I was screaming for help because I honestly thought he was going to kill me.

Eventually some onlookers further inside the mall (closer to the Macy’s entrance) ran towards him and chased him off. SPD came but they didn’t find him. They asked if I wanted to press charges but I have a young family and was afraid of personal consequences if I had to testify against him in court.

I suffered a concussion and multiple facial fractures. It was pretty bad for a few weeks. Any kind of technology gave me really bad headaches.

And he never did get my computer. I hadn’t even made it to the Apple store yet. The only silver lining to all of that was Apple botched my computer repair and they gave me a brand new unit out of the box. (I definitely got a security guard to escort me back to my car on the way out).

Given what happened to me, I’m really glad that Juli is ok.

That mall has turned into a real cesspool.

 

[721Comstock]

Now that i’ve discovered the Apple store will use a courier to get purchases to your home in a few hours, I have absolutely zero need to step in mall to “shop”

The last time I tried to shop in a mall, last year -
I drove a half hour from my office (and that much further away from home) to go to the ‘closest’ Apple store, to get my daughter the MacBook Pro she was required to have for college (art school).

Drove around the parking lot for like :10 mins because I couldn’t determine which entrance was closest to where I needed to go in, finally just parked (lot was jammed, I was shocked) and head in.

There’s a line to get into the Apple store. I queue up.
Maybe :15 mins later, and incredibly stereotypical Apple employee (call him Young Comic Book Store Guy) works his way back to me, asks what I’m there for.

I tell him the exact make, model, color, and specs of the MacBook I want - I had called prior to confirm it was in stock -
and that I just wanted to grab it and pay for it.

Oh no, you can’t do that!
You need an appointment, and the next one is - he checks - 2.5 hours from now.

I’m there on my lunch break, I can’t burn the entire FFF’n afternoon on this, so I turn around and walk out.

From my car in the parking lot, I ordered it directly from Apple online, got free next-day delivery, and it was at my house by noon the next day.

I will never set foot in an Apple store, or in a mall, ever again.